Chelsea are reportedly eyeing a transfer for Lille striker Jonathan David, who has already been linked with a transfer to Manchester United.
The Canadian worldwide helped Lille to the Ligue 1 title in 2020/21 and has scored 69 objectives in his four-and-a-half seasons with the French facet.
Aston Villa are additionally mentioned to be eager on 24-year-old David, whose 26 worldwide objectives make him Canada’s second-highest scorer of all time.
In keeping with French TV programme Telefoot, Chelsea are actually maintaining tabs on the previous Gent frontman, who joined Lille for €30m in the summertime of 2020 – having completed as joint main goalscorer within the Belgian prime flight the earlier season.
The Blues are enduring one other marketing campaign of centre-forward struggles, with Nicolas Jackson failing to persuade within the Premier League and Christopher Nkunku spending a lot of the season to date out injured.
Chelsea paid a mixed £84m to convey the pair to Stamford Bridge final summer season, solely two years after the £98m re-signing of Romelu Lukaku – who flopped throughout his return to West London.
Thoughts you, David hasn’t been in prolific goalscoring kind himself this time period, discovering the online solely six instances in 19 league appearances – and 11 instances in 26 outings in all competitions.
However he could be a markedly extra reasonably priced possibility than somebody like Victor Osimhen: Transfermarkt presently values David at €50m (£42.7m).
Nonetheless, if Chelsea have been to hold on till this time subsequent 12 months, they can negotiate a deal to convey him in on a free switch in the summertime of 2025, when his present Lille contract expires.
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